“Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?”

“How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read”

“The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it”

“In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”

“A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world”

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”